laws were were passed over in wisconsin. these are the same people whos passed these laws in texas. they made it an emergency piece of legislation, the same people who are passing these laws are the same people who want to roll back civil rights and women's rights and for young people take away any opportunity to go to college. so this was part of the party's platform for making it harder to vote for particular groups. >> so we look at your website and we have staggering statistics and eye openers for people. in texas, over one in ten registered voters lack i.d. and we have 127 counties that don't have i.d.-issuing facilities and the justice department that's currently suing texas over the strict law. so what's next in the battle and what role do you in the advancement project play? >> right. first, you should know that the department of justice says about $1.4 million eligible voters in the state of texas do not have the i.d. that's required and so what we have to do now is there's litigation that's going on that's brought by the department of justice and a number of civil rights o